A cognitive behavioral perspective on corrective experiences.
A cognitive behavioral perspective on corrective experiences.
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关于纠正经历的认知行为视角。
DOI:
10.1037/13747-005
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发表时间:
2012
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通讯作者:
Carly W Yasinski
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作者:
Adele M. Hayes;J. Beck;Carly W Yasinski
The concept of corrective experiences (CEs) has a long history and an important place in theories of change in psychotherapy. This concept has its roots in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic traditions. As early as 1946, Alexander and French conceptualized the corrective emotional experience as a common therapeutic principle: In all forms of etiological psychotherapy, the basic therapeutic principle is the same: to reexpose the client, under more favourable circumstances, to emotional situations which he could not handle in the past. The client, in order to be helped, must undergo a corrective emotional experience suitable to repair the traumatic influence of previous experiences. It is of secondary importance whether this corrective experience takes place during treatment in the transference relationship or parallel with the treatment in the daily life of the client.(p. 66) In a later discussion of CEs in the context of learning theory, Alexander (1963/2004) described these experiences as involving the disruption of habitual maladaptive patterns and the development of new patterns. In this account, the original negative experience is activated, brought into the client’s awareness, and the therapist’s response is different from what the client expects based on his or her history. Alexander emphasized the importance of repetition so that the new reaction can become more automatic and consolidated. These descriptions of CEs suggest that they are experiential and affectively charged, involve a shift in meaning, and require repetition to solidify the new patterns of responding. As highlighted by Goldfried and Davila (2005) and Grosse Holtforth et al.(2007), the CE describes a principle of therapeutic change that transcends theoretical orientation. Alexander and French’s (1946) early ideas come from a psychoanalytic tradition, yet the principles described in their account of CEs sound strikingly similar to principles that underlie modern exposure and learning-based interventions. We present a cognitive behavioral perspective on CEs and illustrate that although the language and therapeutic techniques differ, the concept of the CE seems central to the process of change in both orientations.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)